From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 17 14:34:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.insweb.com (mail2.insweb.com [204.254.158.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4632C37B40F; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-secure@ursine.com) Received: from ursine.com (dhcp-4-45-203.users.insweb.com [10.4.45.203]) by mail2.insweb.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7HLXwT73320; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-secure@ursine.com) Message-ID: <3B7D8DC6.A0B600AA@ursine.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:33:58 -0700 From: Michael Bryan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... References: <98829DC07ECECD47893074C4D525EFC311561F@citsnl007.europe.intranet><20010817165323.F4969-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> <15229.34962.653064.226276@nomad.yogotech.com> <007901c12762$d3ac7ea0$8701a8c0@equinox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > > Which just brings me to another point, why not just turn ssh on by default > and turn telnetd off by default, given the latest exploit. Umm, because the -next- exploitable bug might be in sshd, not telnetd? There are lots of good reasons to run ssh and not telnet by default, but the fact that telnetd had a recent exploitable bug is not one of those reasons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message